Every day, you need to provide personal information in order to go on with your daily activities, e.g., give your personal identification documents and contact details to your Employer, or the name of your kids and other information to their school; or your medical history to doctors, etc. The solution is not to stop providing […]

Your personal data is important because provides information about you, as an individual identity different from the others –what is your name, your race, your location, your religion, your sexual orientation, your identification number (in the UK, National Insurance Number), your political opinions, your health conditions, etc.- Also includes data that can make you identifiable […]

Three months ago, the CJEU (the “Court”) held that operators of Facebook Pages are jointly responsible for the data processing operations of Facebook of the visitors to its Fan Page -the key points of the case was previously discussed here. However, until today, many organisations have not closed their Facebook Fan Pages. The following aims […]

What good could it bring to have the best product or service if none of your potential customers can know about it? I would say, none. That is why, Marketing as a process by which a product or service is introduced and promoted to potential customers is indeed, one of the core tools for any […]

Under EU data protection law the Data Controller and Data Processor must, among other duties, ensure the lawfulness to collect or re-use personal data, and the fairness and transparency of the processing. In other words, the individual should have the necessary information to assess and freely decides when his/her personal data is to be processed, […]

On the 5 of June 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Case C-201/16 judged that the Administrator of a Facebook’s Fan Pages is jointly responsible with Facebook for its processing of personal data of the visitors of the page. This judgment is important since it determines the data protection responsibilities […]

The GDPR material scope, refers to the activities that are within or outside the scope of the instrument, and it is stated in Art.2; and the GDPR territorial scope refers to the application of the regulation to organisations within and outside the EU*, and it is stated in Art.3. To be accurate regarding the full […]

On the 25th May 2018, many EU countries were no ready for the implementation of the GDPR -despite having two years of preparation. Unfortunately, it is not difficult to imagine that many private companies, as data controllers or data processors, may be facing the same situation regarding the GDPR, and hence this article explores the […]

Nowadays, most organisations and businesses use web analytics tools. And in fact, the concern is not the use of these tools, is how they work, since they use cookies or similar technologies require consent before any processing takes place. WHAT IS A WEB ANALYTICAL TOOL? “A web analytical tool refers to a combination of (a) […]

This article explores the use of consent to store information or access to storage of information on an end user’s terminal equipment. However, keep in mind that the last amendments to the ePrivacy Directive analyses other grounds for data processing, other than consent. WHAT IS CONSENT? Consent is a legal base by which a person can agree […]